It turned out that the city had been not so much ungovernable as ungoverned.
The main issue is whether the Internet, so far relatively ungoverned, should be regulated like radio and television.
But to regard the British Midlands and the banlieues of Paris as ungoverned spaces would be stretching a point.
"Partly, this is a consequence of the Arab Spring and the power vacuums and ungoverned spaces that have sprung up in its wake, " it said.
We must close down the ungoverned space in which they thrive and we must deal with the grievances they use to garner support.
This would enable a controlled solution to an ungoverned problem.
The fear that really prompted French intervention and that guaranteed it wide-spread support was the nightmare that a vast area like northern Mali could turn into ungoverned space providing a sanctuary for AQIM.
"In particular, the task is to understand the nature of the new threat - more decentralised, more fragmented, taking advantage of the ungoverned spaces and security vacuum in parts of North Africa, " he said.
That leaves conflicts that rage in weak and failing states (as in parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan), or in ungoverned space (in parts of Somalia), where rival non-state actors, terrorist groups, militants and warlords do battle.
Ungoverned Somalia has few such projects.
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All this talk of a Bitcoin bubble has annoyed the true believers - an interesting mixture of libertarians and cryptographic specialists charmed by the idea of a currency that embodies many of the open and virtually ungoverned principles of the internet itself.
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